When adults talk to teenagers, they often wonder, "Are they hearing ANYTHING I say? Are they going to remember ANY of this?" Seventeen-year-old Grace investigates. This vox pop comes in two versions. Version A ends with a DeVotchKa song. Version B contains the word "piss ant" and ends with a Tori Amos song. Enjoy!

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This “vox pop”-inspired mix asks how ordinary people in Chapel Hill, NC, view food and how food affects their lives. Producer Brentton Harrison adds, "if I were to open up a restaurant, it would be a BBQ joint and I would call it 'Notorious P.I.G.'”

Original music featured in this piece by Rev. B & The Wanna B’s (all rights reserved).

This “vox pop”-inspired mix asks how ordinary people in Chapel Hill, NC, view food and how food affects their lives. To answer one of my own questions, if I were to open up a restaurant, it would be a BBQ joint and I would call it “Notorious P.I.G.”
Music featured in this piece by Rev. B & The Wanna B’s.

More than a quarter of American children experience parents physically fighting each other at some time in their lives. Early researchers into family violence often considered children to be "invisible victims", but that view is changing.
MPR Youth Radio reporter Valencia McMurray revisits an incident that happened in her family when she was six and has kept a hold on her family 14 years later.

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Middle School Youth Producer Paiton Kalina investigates her family's love of Polka music in this humorous and lively first-person essay. Produced with help from Amber Woytek at the Wharton Boys & Girls Club.

This story was produced during a three-week summer workshop led by Lucia Duncan at the Wharton Boys and Girls Club, in Wharton, TX (55 miles southwest of Houston).The theme of the workshop was music the students’ families listen to: gospel, polka,and two types of Mexican music (Zapateado and Tribal).The students discovered similarities among the different types of music - in the way that music contributes to culture and in the way that music and culture change.

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Jillian Suarez's story is one she says she doesn't want to tell with tears. Jillian's father, a New York City police officer, didn't come home on 9/11 and for three months her mother held out hope he would be found alive - until she received a call that his remains had been found.

Jillian Suarez's story is one she says she doesn't want to tell with tears. Jillian's father, a New York City police officer, didn't come home on 9/11 and for three months her mother held out hope he would be found alive - until she received a call that his remains had been found. Now 18 years old, Jillian rarely speaks about her loss. For this piece, she decided to push through her silence to sit down with some of the closest people in her life, including her mom, to talk about her father's death and what his absence has meant to her.

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At the age of 22, fresh off the humanities degree assembly line, Jennie Gruber found herself doing the filthiest work of her life at a recycling center called Big Blue Sphere. There she came face to face with an invisible subculture of Santa Cruz vagabonds who taught her to see homeless people in a whole new light. Visiting a similar recycling plant near her current home in Brooklyn, and reminiscing about the job with an old co-worker, Gruber muses on the influence that "Big Loose Fear" had on her life.

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In this piece, Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, asks the question: What if? What if the world were different? This imaginative and poetic piece challenges our current understanding of the world around us.

In this piece, Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, asks the question: What if? What if the world were different? This imaginative and poetic piece challenges our current understanding of the world around us. Her simple yet beautiful questions pull the rug out from underneath listeners- what if old is young... or what is we all understood basic human rights? Listen and let Ellie guide you through an imaginative world that could be... better.

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Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says the eighteen-year-old senior, is the sound of violence.

Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says the eighteen-year-old senior, is the sound of violence.

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High school Junior Reilly asks other teenagers, "When do you feel most alive?" This vox-pop is short and sweet, and has the interesting effect of making at least THIS listener feel just a little more alive herself.

High school Junior Reilly asks other teenagers, "When do you feel most alive?" This vox-pop is short and sweet, and has the interesting effect of making at least THIS listener feel just a little more alive herself. *This story is actually 3 min 08 seconds. We can't figure out how to remove the 40 seconds of silence at the very end. Sorry for the inconvenience.

For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes to one another - what the facility calls "illegal mail" - is a crime, but it's also one of the most commonly committed crimes at Long Creek. Jacorey delves into the culture of illegal mail, from the enforcers to the self-defined King of Illegal Mail.

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Throughout the school day we are bombarded by sounds, whether we acknowledge them or not. They surround us day in and day out. Sometimes they come at you on beat; moving in a constant flow of different sounds. These are those sounds. This is that rhythm.

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Among the thousands of protesters to amass in Lower Manhattan in the past month are out-of-towners from across the country. One of them was 16-year-old Jelani Gibson who traveled by bus from Pontiac, Michigan with his grandmother. From Zuccotti Park, the continuously occupied headquarters of the demonstration where he spent a week in early October, he has this postcard.

Among the thousands of protesters to amass in Lower Manhattan in the past month are out-of-towners from across the country. One of them was 16-year-old Jelani Gibson who traveled by bus from Pontiac, Michigan with his grandmother. From Zuccotti Park, the continuously occupied headquarters of the demonstration where he spent a week in early October, he has this postcard.